Samuel Ringgold Ward

Samuel Ringgold Ward, an escaped slave, became the pastor of two all-white congregations in South Butler and Cortland, New York. In 1834, he was attacked by a proslavery mob of New York merchants, and was jailed without “accuser or trial.” From then on, he committed himself to the anti-slavery cause. In 1851, fearing arrest for his part in a slave rescue, Ward escaped to Canada, where he continued to work as an anti-slavery agent. Ward used his powerful oratorical skills overseas, and lived the remainder of his life in Jamaica, free from the constant threat of arrest.

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• The Underground Railroad
• William Wells Brown
• Henry Highland Garnet
• Samuel Ringgold Ward
• Slave Purchased and Freed by her Mother
• Runaway Slave Notice
• The Amistad
• Insurrections
• Douglass' Monthly